Claudia Caviezel

January 10, 2025 - January 4, 2026

Textile artist Claudia Caviezel (born in Zug in 1977, based in St.Gallen) delves into the dynamics of space in her work. By incor­porating textile fragments and distorted patterns into her installa­tions, Caviezel crafts a visual tension that invites viewers to recon­ sider their perceptions. To commence the year, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is showcasing a large-scale textile piece created specifically for the staircase of the main building. This installation highlights the interaction between visitors andthe space, and in close proximity to Pipilotti Rist's oversized television room, Das Zimmer, it creates a captivating effect reminiscent of a glitching TV.

Photo: Claudia Caviezel © Basil Stücheli

Atiéna R. Kilfa

Feburary 8 - July 6, 2025, Lokremise

The practice of Atiéna R. Kilfa (born in Paris in 1990, lives and works in Berlin) homes in on cinematic archetypes and the intricate ways in which images are constructed in film - an apparatus which she unravels. Through video, photography, sculpture and installation, her work reflects on various traditions and technical mechanisms of production and post-production, inviting us to consider how images bear witness to time and to the ideologies whose histories we con­tinue to inhabit. The work in this exhibition, Kilfa's first in Switzerland, will consist of a new large-scale piece made specifically for the Lokremise, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen's exhibition venue with an in­dustrial past. 

Photo: Atiéna R. Kilfa © Julian Krause

Mikhail Karikis

April 5 - July 27, 2025

In his socially and politically engaged praxis, Mikhail Karikis (born in Thessaloniki in 1975, lives in Lisbon) combines sound, video, installation and performance to home in on the relationships between communities, labor and the environment. He explores the relationship between people and their environment and proposes mutual listen­ing, community building, and the collective creation of sound as means by which to build a better future. He often collaborates with differ­ent social communities - such as children, teenagers, young adults and people with disabilities - to develop embedded projects that imag­ine alternative ways of living with each other. The artist's first solo exhibition in Switzerland, which will span his twenty-year artistic career, will also feature a new work produced on site. 

Photo: Mikhail Karikis © Felicity Crawshaw

Sara Masüger

August 23 -  November 9, 2025, Lokremise

The work of Sara Masüger (born in Baar in 1978, lives in Zurich) is characterized by a deep examination of the human body and its physical presence in space. In making her sculptures and installati­ons she toggles between organic forms and abstract representati­on, employing materials such as plaster, polyester resin and metal. Site-specific spatial structures are always the starting points for Masüger's work, which aims to destabilize perceptual expectations. Boundaries between insides and outsides become fluid, while pro­portions and aggregate states seem to be suspended.

Photo: Sara Masüger © Katalin Deér

Jacqueline de Jong

September 27, 2025 - March 22, 2026

The Kunstmuseum St.Gallen presents the first retrospective in Switzerland of the recently deceased Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (born in Hengelo, the Netherlands in 1939; died in Amsterdam in 2024). The exhibition brings together an oeuvre of painting, sculp­ture and graphic art produced in dialogue with some of the most important post-war artistic movements in Europe - including art brut, Pop Art, New Figuration and Postmodernism. Aged 19, De Jong be­came already involved in the revolutionary, radical avant-garde mo­vement the Situationist International. Throughout her career, De Jong stayed true to this spirit. Her shapeshifting and oftentimes politically engaged work was playful, erotic, funny, dark and - above all - always radically contemporary, oriented towards the world. 

Photo: Jacqueline de Jong in her studio in Amsterdam, 2021 © Gert Jan van Rooij